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sailingaway
04-07-2011, 08:56 PM
President Obama had the constitutional power to lawfully launch military strikes in Libya without permission from Congress because he “could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest,” the Justice Department concluded in an internal memorandum released on Thursday.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/justice-memo-upholds-libya-strikes/?partner=rss&emc=rss

Pardon me, while I go break something.